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Last year, I bought a house.  Certainly not the nicest house, as it needed quite a bit of work.  It’s on a busy street and it was pretty exposed to a high volume of traffic. So I built a privacy fence.  It was about 75 feet long, with one gate, all wood.  It took me less than a day to dig the posts, build the fence, and stain it.  I had a bit of help from my friends and family, but it was a pretty quick, easy project. My friend asked me to help him with his.  He wanted to build a fence that bordered his entire lot, around 300 feet, with 6 gates due to easement access issues.  I figured it wouldn’t take more than a few days, especially with two people, and he had a bobcat with an auger, rather than the hand auger from the rental shop.  The first day, we got about 30 feet in, and he ran out of materials.  The next day, we got about 20 more in before something came up and we had to stop.  The next, we got the posts in for about 90 ft of fence in the back yard, but still needed to dig and set the posts for both sides of the house.  Since this was taking much longer than anticipated, mostly because my friend refuses to buy more than a few hours worth of materials, I had to go back to work.  He claims that if he bought everything at once, I’d work through the night to get it done, and he doesn’t like to work that long at once, understandably.  Luckily, he rounded up another friend to help with the fence for a while.  When I came back to help, he’d finally gotten a palate of cedar for the slats.  I put as many up as I could, until we ran out.  Because he bought the last of the cedar, we had to wait a few more days until more cedar came in.  I had to go back to work.  After a few weeks of this, we still have to rip a few slats for the ends of the fence, where the space is an inch or two smaller than the slap, and we have to stain it.  Not sure if either of these things will ever be done, but it’s good enough to keep the dogs in. Now onto another project.

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If your carbon brake surface is worn down, it's best to purchase a new wheel than to try resurfacing it. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.comRe-surfacing brake tracks Dear Lennard, I have a set of Easton EC 90 carbon tubular rims that I use for ’cross. They are awesome despite being a little more than four years old and showing wear on the braking surface (they are not disc brakes). Can the braking surface be resurfaced? If so, how? Do you have any experience with this? They’re great wheels that I am not able to replace at the moment and upgrading to discs is totally out of the question right now. It seems like ’cross can wear the surface down more than road use, so I would like to think there is a solution out there besides buying new wheels. But I am not aware of how it is all done. I would love any advice you could give! — Dan Dear Dan, It had never occurred to me before to even think of doing such a thing. I am very interested to know as well and did some research on it. Unfortunately, the brake track cannot be resurfaced, if you mean by adding material, by any of the manufacturers I’ve contacted. Their responses are below. I also asked carbon-fiber repair firms, and only one of them would do it, and the others offered reasons for not doing so. See those responses below as well. If you were to somehow resurface it, I’m certain that it would void any manufacturer warranty you might have on the wheel. ? Lennard From Reynolds: Inherent in high-performance rims is the design concept for minimum wall thickness that will provide a “reasonable” life span. Unfortunately, this means that there is no additional sacrificial material that could be machined off in a resurfacing operation. In theory, ceramic could be deposited on the worn surface, and then ground smooth. As you may recall, I laminated a ceramic layer onto the surface of the carbon during the molding process (it was a production product for Lew rims), and also experimented with ceramic that was deposited after molding, and then ground smooth (never a Lew production process). For reasons not pertinent to this topic, neither is ideal as a current state-of-the-art solution for a new/production rim, however with significant resources (more cost than the cost of a new rim), a ceramic compound could be deposited to the braking surface of a worn rim and then ground smooth. This would be a solution/process for resurfacing a worn braking surface on a carbon rim. Reynolds manufactures a ceramic brake track rim that is sold under the brand Pacific Rims, and it is sold as an OEM product to certain customers who request this brake track. The reason we do this is to avoid the hassle of needing to use a special brake pad. The ceramic makes the braking surface super durable and although it’s not marketed as a CX product, it would work well for that application. The down side of this rim is that the braking is not optimized for stopping power or heat-resistance, and it does not perform as well as our CTg laminate with the Cryo-Blue pad. It would, however, solve the problem Dan has experienced associated with CX use. — Paul Lew Director of Technology and Innovation Reynolds Cycling, LLC From Zipp: I can only speak for ours, officially. But they cannot. Most brake track surfaces, ours included, are integrally constructed and are not capable of being deconstructed to resurface them. — David Ripley Technical PR Manager Zipp Speed Weaponry From DT Swiss: On the record, we do not recommend “resurfacing” of our carbon braking surfaces due to all of the variables involved. Especially given the brake track is both a structural and functional part of the rim. This is because we simply cannot vouch for the quality, materials used or the experience possessed by the facility or technician on a repair in the field. — Matthew McClendon Marketing/Account Executive DT Swiss, Inc. From ENVE: No, there is not a process that can add material to a brake track after it has worn away. I m

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